On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Naslund, Steve wrote: FWIW ... OpenBSD on a lanner appliance with openbgpd will chew 1G. Especially on the latest version - 6.2. Debian on the same lanner running bird would also chew that as well.
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 3:43 PM To: Adam Lawson Cc: nanog Subject: Re: Small full BGP table capable router with low power consumption
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Adam Lawson <adlawson@zoho.com> wrote: The router needs to be squeezed in to a rack which doesn't have a lot of space nor power. As for space, maybe I can make space for 3U or 4U but as for power, I can only do around 1.5A@100V on average. (There is room for burst power usage.)
A Cisco 2911 or 3945 does this though the 3945 is a little more power hungry.
A current generation x86 server running Linux and Quagga does this.
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